Top 500 Erin Morgenstern Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “This is what his mother would call a moment with meaning. A moment that changes the moments that follow.”

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252. “He wishes he had brought the wine-colored book with him, but he is trying to make a point of not having his nose constantly in a book. It is an attempt to appear friendlier that he’s not certain is working yet.”

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253. “You’re not destined or chosen, I wish I could tell you that you were if that would make it easier, but it’s not true. You’re in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that’s enough.”

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254. “It began as a dollhouse. Over time, it has become more than that. A dolltown. A dollworld. A dolluniverse.”

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255. “This is the precise flavor that the circus should be. Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.”

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256. “Magic is secreand secrets are magic...”

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257. “This is not the first time they have stood together on these shores. It will not be the last. This is a story they will live over and over again, together and apart. The cage that contains them both is a large one that does not have a key. Not yet.”

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258. “These things happened. Sometimes it might sound weird but sometimes life is like that. Sometimes life gets weird. You can try to ignore it or you can see where weird takes you.”

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259. “I also think most of us are two steps away from jumping off something most of the time and you never know if the next day is going to push you in one direction or another.”

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260. “While earlier Marco had determined her to be little more than mildly intriguing and fairly pretty, this revelation is something more.”

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261. “Do you believe in the mystical, the fantastical, the improbable, or the impossible? Do you believe that things others dismiss as dreams and imagination actually exist? Do you believe in fairy tales?”

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262. “I’m in love with her.”

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263. “There are many kinds of magic, after all.”

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264. “But he spends so much time in front of screens he has a near-compulsive need to let his eyeballs rest on paper.”

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265. “I’m more of a cocktail guy,” he says, though he is also of the opinion that sparkling wine is an anytime beverage and appreciates Mirabel’s style.”

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266. “It looks a breath away from being a crumbling ruin. Held together by spinning planets and ticking clocks and wishful thinking and string.”

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267. “He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves.”

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268. “If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.”

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269. “He waits though once he never waited, would never dream to wait or wait to dream.”

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270. “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – OSCAR WILDE, 1888.”

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271. “Yes,” Poppet says. “But what’s the use in seeing the future if I can’t do anything to stop it?” ” You cannot stop things,” Celia says. “You can only be prepared for them to happen.”

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272. “Books are always better when read than explained.”

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273. “Not a single person in that audience believes for a second that what I do up there is real,” he says, gesturing in the general direction of the stage. “That’s the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish covered in feathers trying to convince the public they can fly, and I am simply a bird in their midst. The audience cannot tell the difference beyond knowing that I am better at it.”

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274. “Symbols are for interpretation, not definition.”

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275. “For every tale carved in rock there are more inscribed on autumn leaves or woven into spiderwebs.”

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276. “The breaking is the easy part. The pulling back together is the problem.”

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277. “Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well.”

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278. “There are countless tattoos, and yet they meld and flow into one design gracefully adorning her like an elegant, unusual piece of jewelry.”

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279. “The place is sprawling yet intimate. It is difficult to measure its breadth. Halls fold into rooms or galleries and stairs twist downward or upward to alcoves or arcades. Everywhere there are doors leading to new spaces and new stories and new secrets to be discovered and everywhere there are books.”

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280. “But he doesn’t open the box anymore. It sits, firmly closed, in the tree. He thinks maybe he should throw it away, but he cannot bring himself to do it. Perhaps he will leave it in the tree and let the bark grow over it, sealing it inside.”

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281. “It would not have been my choice for her, but a child should not have their choices dictated for them.”

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282. “For a moment he can feel, sharply and strongly, within the air in his lungs, precisely what it is to lose and find and lose again, over and over and over.”

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283. “They are a nocturnal amalgam of social event and business meeting.”

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284. “It’s never too late to change what you are, it took me a long time to figure that out.”

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285. “I felt like we were right at that place where you go from being regular friends to help-you-move-dead-bodies friends but we weren’t quite there yet, like we needed to do one more side quest together and earn a few more mutual approval points and then it would be something a little more comfortable, but we hadn’t figured out our friendship dynamic entirely.”

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286. “Bailey feels oddly at ease. As though he is closer to the ground, but taller at the same time.”

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287. “Can’t make an egg without breaking a few metaphors.”

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288. “And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.”

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289. “Important things hurt sometimes.”

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290. “He was seeking immortality, which is a terrible thing to seek. It is not seeking anything, but rather avoiding the unavoidable.”

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291. “It doesn’t whisper verses or stories around his tongue and into his head, thankfully, but it tastes older than stories. It tastes like myth.”

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292. “It bothers him most at times like this, in the bottom of the brandy bottle and the quiet of the night.”

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293. “Whatever you wish to pay for a glimpse of your future,” the fortune-teller says. Bailey stops to consider this for a moment. It is strange, but fair.”

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294. “Endings are what give stories meaning.”

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295. “The painter spends her time in solitude and contemplation categorizing losses and regrets trying to determine if there was ever anything she could have done to prevent any of them or if they simply passed through her life and out again like waves upon a shore.”

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296. “Even the ground beneath his feet feels unsatisfying to his boots.”

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297. “Do you know why I gave my daughter permission to marry your father? Because she would have run off with him regardless. Follow your dreams, Bailey,” she says. “Be they Harvard or something else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone’s dream once, himself.”

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298. “She is young enough to carry fear with her without letting it into her heart. Without being scared. She wears her fear lightly, like a veil, aware that there are dangers but letting the crackling awareness hover around her. It does not sink in, it buzzes in excitement like a swarm of invisible bees.”

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299. “Devotion is for acolytes. Worthiness for guardians. Keepers must have spirit and keep it aloft.”

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300. “I don’t always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.”

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